After the First Death: An Anthology of Wales and War in the Twentieth Century

Tony Curtis

This anthology contains writing by many of the greatest authors of Wales. From Wilfred Owen and David Jones, Dylan Thomas and Dannie Abse to Christopher Meredith and Gillian Clarke, it spans a century which saw both the barbarism of mechanised warfare and the development of mass communication, mass literacy and a flourishing of creative endeavour ...

The Big Book of Cardiff

Peter Finch, Grahame Davies

A new anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 100 years as a city, 50 as the Welsh capital...

Birdsong

Dewi Roberts

From the epic mythologies of the Mabinogion through to the present day, birds have exerted a powerful influence on the literature of Wales. This unique anthology gathers together a remarkable range of poetry and prose ...

A Cardiff Anthology

Meic Stephens

’I’m Cardiff born and I’m Cardiff bred, And when I die I’ll be Cardiff dead’ - Frank Hennessy. Life in the Welsh capital means many things to many people. Frank Hennessy loves it, but others aren’t so sure ...

Childhood: An Anthology

Dewi Roberts

‘I like very much people telling me about their childhood, but they’ll have to be quick or else I’ll be telling them about mine’ said Dylan Thomas, and it is true that childhood – real and invented – exerts a particular fascination for writers....

The Chosen People

Grahame Davies

The histories of the Welsh people and the Jewish people have entwined in a number of ways over the centuires. ’The Chosen People’ uses extracts from Welsh literature to show the two nations have interacted both in Wales and elsewhere ...

Christmas in Wales

Dewi Roberts

Celebrate Christmas the Welsh way in the company of some of the country’s leading writers, past and present. Christmas mass, the nativity play, turkey and plum pudding, the Mari Lwyd, presents, the weather, the shopping…

A Clwyd Anthology

Dewi Roberts

From the Airbus at Broughton to the castle at Rhuddlan; from the resorts of the coast to the International Eisteddfod at Llangollen; from the farms of the Vales to the mountains of Hiraethog; from the English of Wrexham to the Welsh of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, the county of Clwyd - the soon to disappear Clwyd - encompasses hugely differing cultures within its boundaries ...

Coal

Tony Curtis

For the first time the literature of mining has been gathered together in a book which celebrates the industry while it still exists.
Contributors include miners themselves and writers moved or inspired by the industry ...

Drawing Down the Moon

Robert Minhinnick

Drawing Down the Moon is an anthology of work from Welsh writers in 1996. Inevitably the reader will identify glaring omissions and infuriating choices here? Where are the young writers? Is there enough political writing?...